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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date SudanBrazilYemen
26,168174,32016,728
26,771176,90217,236
27,387179,38917,762
28,017181,72118,310
28,662183,97018,855
29,321186,16519,410
29,996188,33020,000
30,686190,43820,611
31,393192,45021,236
32,137194,45821,878
33,078196,46422,533
33,891198,40823,195
34,568200,15223,880
35,293201,89424,594
36,093203,61425,311
37,058205,35826,020
38,165207,14826,698
39,294208,85927,347
40,512210,53727,985
41,764212,25828,608
42,952213,94029,216
44,121215,57729,811
45,290216,72030,399
46,498217,71831,058

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Brazil

  • 1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
  • 1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
  • 1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

No separate list is published for Sudan, Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.